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Wednesday, June 23, 2004

INSIPID PUNDIT

Until a few weeks ago, Instapundit was the world’s most popular blog. Now he’s been overtaken by Kos.

Over at Kos they are saying that perhaps "the right/libertarian crowd is losing interest in following the events of the day." Yeah, yeah. I think a more likely reason is that many of his posts are failing the Boring Man in a Bar Test. If a man in a bar showed you a photo of his car and told you that he was working harder than anyone else in his office but that he can quit whenever he wants, what would be your reaction? You would look at your watch and start trying to escape.

Not interesting enough to say in a bar; yet this got beamed, at the speed of light, to tens of thousands of people.

And if you saw a man, a comparative stranger, sidling towards you with photos of his fishing trip, his cat and a boat club in Tennessee, you’d be out of that bar like a springing cheetah.

Here are the fishing trip entries:

June 11th: "A PICTURE FROM MY FRONT PORCH this evening. (Or maybe it's the back porch, since it's the side away from the ocean)..."

JUNE 12th: "THIS IS THE VIEW from the other porch. Front? Back? A matter of perspective, I guess."

JUNE 14th: The InstaDaughter caught a shark, too, but I don't have a picture of that. Or of her eating her first raw oyster straight out of Apalachicola Bay. (She loved it.) The Insta-Mom learned to sea kayak, and I took my 13-year-old nephew for his first open-ocean scuba dives.

At the level of prose style and sustained dramatic interest, the world’s most famous blog is actually less good than the postcards my mother sends me. I wish he would shut up.